cram

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cram /kr'æm/ (crams cramming crammed)
1 [VERB] V n prep/adv, V n full of n, V n with n
If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them.
While nobody was looking, she squashed her school hat and crammed it into a wastebasket...
I crammed my bag full of swimsuits and T-shirts and caught the sleeper down to Beziers...
She crammed her mouth with caviar.
= stuff
2 [VERB] V prep, V n
If people cram into a place or vehicle or cram a place or vehicle, so many of them enter it at one time that it is completely full.
We crammed into my car and set off...
Friends and admirers crammed the chapel at the small Los Angeles cemetery where Monroe is buried.
= pack
3 [VERB] V for n
If you are cramming for an examination, you are learning as much as possible in a short time just before you take the examination.
She was cramming for her Economics exam...
● cramming [N-UNCOUNT]
It would take two or three months of cramming to prepare for Vermont's bar exam.

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